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sition of the several parts w cur in the several figures, parts of ire-arm in all 5 and to enable others f'rnnr trice..

II. `scnr-omnia, I.. sALnWsKI, AND WM.v SCHMIDT, or nLooMINeron, ILL.

lmeeo'vsnirnr Insassen-"Lomme Fran-ARMS.

Speciiieation forming part of Letters Patent N0..1`6,2,.dated December 23, 1856.

.To @ZZ whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, HERMANN Sennonnnn,

LoUIs Sarnwsni, and WILLIAM SCHMIDT, all of Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms; and we `do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and .exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part thereof, in which y Figure l represents a side view of the gun with portions o1" the barrel, and stock broken away. Fig. 2 represents alongitudinal cen-v tral section through the gun, showing the pohen the gun has been discharged. Fig. 3 represents a similar section, but showing the position of the parts when the barrel has been run forward, so as' to admit of being charged at the breech. Figs.

4, 5, and 6 represent details of the gun, which will be specially referred to in the description. Y g

Similar letters oi' reference, where they ocdenote the same skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings, coniningthe description more especially to those parts deemed to be new or working in concert with the novel features of thegun.

The nature of our invention relates-to that class of fire arms termed breech loading guns, and it consists in so uniting the barrel with the cock or hammer as that the act of moving forward the barrel to open its breech shall cock the gun.

Arepresents the stock, and B the barrel, of

. a gun of any ordinary construction.

G is a breech-piece permanently connected to the stoclg, and having a holethrough its center longitudinally for the needle a, which pierces the priming to ignite the charge, to pass through. The barrel B slides back over the breech-piece (J far enough to canse the charge to be forced np into the barrel beyond the joint .1, so thatiiring past the joint is avoided. The end ofthe breech-piece is concave, as seen at c, and the nipple or guide d, through which th c needle passes, projects .from said concave portion, so as to allow the necdle to penetrate the center (as near as :may be) ofthe charge and be guided in so doing. The

charge which we use is the loaded cartridge .with the pellet or primin gin front of instead of teeth of the spur or pinion wheel D take, so

that Aby turning the lever F the barrel may be run forward and back on the stock, it kbeing properly restrained and guided in so doing by tongues connected to the barrel, which slide in grooves in the stock, as distinctly seen in Fig. 4. Theobject in running the barrel forward is that the charge may be readily slipped into its bore, and when the barrel is run back to the breech a' stud, f, on the end of the -lever F comes opposite to and springsinto a recess, g, on the barrel, vand thus firmly locks thebafrel and breech together. Y The spurv or pinion D is split, as seen at h, Fig. 4, and a bent bar, link,I or rod, z', is pivoted in said splitor slot, as seen in the section, Fig. 5, the other end of said' link or rod c' being pivoted to a dog, 7c, which lies underneath the barrel. The end of this dog k is bent'up, as at Z, and takes under a slroulder formed in the cock or hammer G, so that when the barrel is run forward, as seen in Fig. 3, to receive the-charge, the dog ,k has had albackward motion, and raises the hare- Iner, drawing back the needle until itis caught by Vthe dog inthe usual manner and is cocked. Now reverse the direction of the lever, and the barrel is run back and the dog forward. The arm is now ready to be discharged, and when discharged the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2. 4

'In Fig. (S we have shown a stop, m, which, when it is necessary to secure4 the -hammer against being released when cocked', is run under the shoulder 'n in the hammer. A. pin, o, connected to this stop, as ,seen 'in Figs. l, 2, 3, admits of forcing 'it under the shoulder, or releasing it rehdily when thel gun is to be fired.

There are many of the detailsof the lock 2- logros `Which it is unnecessary to mention, as it may combination of mechanical parts, substantially be changed at pleasure, and does not 'con'stisuch as herein described.

tute any part of this application. vHERMANN SCHROEDER.

. Having lthus fully described the nature of LOUIS SALEWSKI. our invention, what we claim therein as new, i XV. SCHMIDT.- and desire to secure b y Letters Patent, isf- Vitnesses:

The cooking' of lthe hammer in. the actof l A. B. STOUGHTON,

moving the barrel forward to' charge ib by a 1 COHEN. 

